Poems in Progress: Drafts from Master Poets Valley Press Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

She is uniquely a 'prophetic' poet

She sees the footprints of early humans fossilised in the soft mud of an estuary alongside the scattered pockmarks made by rain falling eight thousand years ago

Other letters reveal Eliot’s delight in close friends such as John Hayward

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Poems in Progress: Drafts from Master Poets Valley Press Emily DickinsonContributors include: Simon Armitage, Kathleen Jamie, Benjamin Zephaniah, Caroline Bird, Hollie McNish, Fiona Benson, Liz Berry, Rebecca Goss, Pascale Petit and many more. Ask two poets what a first draft looks like and youll get wildly different answers. From typed pages with delicate annotation to scribbles in a dog eared notebook, drafts tell us so much more about poems and poets than the published versions ever could. Themed chapters allow for